[issue13703] Hash collision security issue

Frank Sievertsen report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jan 20 10:30:41 CET 2012


Frank Sievertsen <python at sievertsen.de> added the comment:

> They may be non-orderable, but since they are required to be hashable,
> I guess one can build an comparison function with the following:

Since we are are trying to fix a problem where hash(X) == hash(Y), you
can't make them orderable by using the hash-values and build a binary
out of the (equal) hash-values.

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